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Beer, cigarette taxes record steepest drop in five years
The taxes are largely charged on goods such as beer, spirits, wine, cigarettes, mineral water, juice, cosmetics, and soda as well as excisable services like airtime, internet, and earnings on loan fees.
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has recorded the biggest fall in tax receipts from locally produced excisable goods and services since the pandemic shutdowns, marked by a double-digit contraction in collections from the sale of beer.
Collections from domestic excise duty for the financial year ended June 2025 dropped 5.75 percent to Sh69.39 billion, the KRA reported last Thursday. This represented a decline of Sh4.23 billion in absolute terms from the prior year’s Sh73.62 billion.
